README.android
1This directory contains tooling to help when debugging time zone issues on
2Android.
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4dump-tzdata.py
5 - A tool that takes a tzdata file and splits it into component tzfiles,
6 zone.tab, etc. Run it with --help for usage. The individual tzfiles can
7 be inspected with tools like zdump, for example with "zdump -V <tzfile>"
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9 It also dumps human-readable CSV files of the (v1) content currently used by
10 Android's ZoneInfo class. These can be inspected and compared with dumps from
11 other tzdata files easily using your favourite text diffing tool.
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